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Remember when you could put $2.00 worth of quarters in the self serve car wash... and it was enough!
I think it cost me $37.50 today and I could have used a shot of oxygen at the end.lol
I think it cost me $37.50 today and I could have used a shot of oxygen at the end.lol
Thank you,
Darian
Galveston Texas
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Great post!
In my very humble opinion everybody on this site, particularly on a day like Mother's Day... Should utube and listen to the Alan Jackson song "remember when"-- whether u like country music or not, u gotta be brain dead not to have that song make u think.Sarasota Fl. and Lake Toxaway N.C. (and Novembers on the island of Kauai) (and April in France.... Don't hate on me for that)
BGE medium and minimax
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Funny that you posted this. Just yesterday I replied to a fellow my age or even younger about gas wars when station owners would feud by posting cheaper prices across the highway. Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
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Photo Egg said:Remember when you could put $2.00 worth of quarters in the self serve car wash... and it was enough!
I think it cost me $37.50 today and I could have used a shot of oxygen at the end.lol
Back when cigs were .50 a pack and a gallon of milk was .90.
When the girl running the register knew how to count out change and didn’t have to touch the picture on the screen to ring up your Coke and bag of peanuts. -
Remember "We now conclude our television broadcast" messages announced every evening by CBS, NBC, and ABC affiliate stations? When we waited for the morning newspaper delivery to learn who was elected president, when sugar was something YOU added to morning cereal?Ubi panis, ibi patria.
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tml1230 said:Great post!
In my very humble opinion everybody on this site, particularly on a day like Mother's Day... Should utube and listen to the Alan Jackson song "remember when"-- whether u like country music or not, u gotta be brain dead not to have that song make u think.
When I first started driving gas was around $0.79 per gallon.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
-Umberto Eco
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After the "We conclude.." message the American flag came on for a while. Next afternoon there was a test pattern before programming began again.
Remember listening to Cisco Kid, Fibber McGee and Molly and Amos and Andy?
My mother listened to "her shows" soap operas while doing housework. A fan in the summer no AC. Screw in fuses in the electric box.
Don't get me started.
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Watch out Darian, the wash bays around here you can just put in your debit card and it will run until you hit stop - you never hear the beeping so you just take your time and them BAM!
Nice thing with living in a small religious town you can wash it by hand in the bay on Sunday am and spent $1 to presoak and $1 to rinse it off.NW IA
2 LBGE, 1 SBGE, 22.5 WSM, 1 Smokey Joe
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RRP said:... Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!
Of course, we made less money back then, too, so it sort of equals out! A decade later, I worked for the summer at General Motors' Fisher Body Plant #1 spot welding on an automotive assembly line, and I made something like $3.75 an hour, and that was BIG MONEY in those days. Bought myself a TV to take to college, felt like I was RICH. These days they are trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour... So when gas was a quarter or less per gallon, we made a LOT less money. -
Pops keeps bugging me to wash the cars at home every week. With dishwashing soap and a hose, like we did when I was a kid.
And every week I tell him "That's what rain is for! "#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX. -
we shared a party line with the funeral home across the streetfukahwee maineyou can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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Remember when your dad kept a hammer sitting on top of the TV?
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@caliking - better to get car wash soap as the dishwashing soap is not paint friendly: (from the inter web so it must be true)
"Don't use household cleaning agents like hand soap, dishwashing detergent, or glass cleaner on the paint. These aren't formulated for use on a car's paint and may strip off the protective wax. Do... use a dedicated car-wash product, which is milder and specifically designed for use on automotive paint."
I use Dawn dish soap whenever (and quite infrequently) I will deep clean the paint (clay bar) and then layer on the wax. FWIW-Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period. -
fishlessman said:xwe shared a party line with the funeral home across the streetFlint, Michigan
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We kept the pipe wrench out to use to turn the TV antenna. We could pick up two stations.
Enjoying life on my LBGE in Tell City, IN. Cheers!!
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There was only one TV station available when we lived in Brunswick, GA.Large Egg, PGS A40 gasser.
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Remember when smoking on an airplane was a thing?
Remember when the first person in your neighborhood got that magical box (the microwave)
Remember taking trips as a kid and sleeping on the back window ledge - seatbelts were optional
Remember when teaches could hit you in the classroom.
At our cottage we had a cold smoker like @ikapigian, except it wasn't used for smoking. well, I guess you could smoke while using it...
Remember hitching a ride, when it was a thing.
Rember the original Hibatchi grill craze
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Brisket_Fanatic said:Watch out Darian, the wash bays around here you can just put in your debit card and it will run until you hit stop - you never hear the beeping so you just take your time and them BAM!
Nice thing with living in a small religious town you can wash it by hand in the bay on Sunday am and spent $1 to presoak and $1 to rinse it off.BrandonQuad Cities
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@lousubcap - oh I hear ya. But my Pops would likely tell you "I need special car soap like I need a hole in my head."
Washed his Mercedes with Dawn too. That, and 25yrs of driving it in India didn't seem to do much harm to the paint job on it!#1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February 2013 • #3 Mini May 2013A happy BGE family in Houston, TX. -
@caliking - I may just move over to your Dad's approach. Besides I don't have that many years left on the planet to worry if it all goes south.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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Remember when I got a lot more work done because I wasn't part of a bbq forum...County of Parkland, Alberta, Canada
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Theophan said:RRP said:... Best I ever recall was .19 per gallon!
Of course, we made less money back then, too, so it sort of equals out! A decade later, I worked for the summer at General Motors' Fisher Body Plant #1 spot welding on an automotive assembly line, and I made something like $3.75 an hour, and that was BIG MONEY in those days. Bought myself a TV to take to college, felt like I was RICH. These days they are trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour... So when gas was a quarter or less per gallon, we made a LOT less money.
When gas is 2.80 and you make $15/hr it takes you 11 minutes to earn 1 gallon of gas.They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin -
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3 odd ones, just from last weekend.
I couldn't call my Mom to pick me up from the airport, finally realized I forgot to make my yearly payment to Tracfone in March.
Remember when you could always find a pay phone? There are still a few in the SLC airport, but not in Sioux Falls. I asked an airport employee if there was a payphone anywhere, and she said, "I don't think so, anymore; here, use mine!"
Remember when total strangers would help you out? How many places left in the world would a total stranger lend you their cellphone?? I called Mom, and the employee and I had a nice chat afterwards.
Eating breakfast at a bagel place the next morning, I saw a guy working on his laptop in the outdoor area (he was the only one out there). He got up, came back into the shop, and went to the restroom. He finally came out, and bought a refill, all along leaving his laptop on a table outside, open and unattended. How many places left in the world, could you do that?!?
If it weren't for the mosquitoes, and the lack of mountains, I'd move back to Sioux Falls for retirement._____________Tin soldiers and Johnson's coming...
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Sioux Falls is a cool town. I used to work their regularly and started during January. I remember seeing the falls the first time, and they were one big block of ice. I also used to go to a real nice steakhouse there. Can’t remember the name of it.=======================================
XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP
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thetrim said:Sioux Falls is a cool town. I used to work their regularly and started during January. I remember seeing the falls the first time, and they were one big block of ice. I also used to go to a real nice steakhouse there. Can’t remember the name of it._____________
Tin soldiers and Johnson's coming...
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blasting said:
Remember hitching a ride, when it was a thing.
By my Junior year I had saved enough from a summer job to buy my own car..Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
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